 | Nathan Scholfield - Conic sections - 1845 - 244 pages
...GEOMETRY. SPHERICAL GEOMETRY. DEFINITIONS. 1. THE sphere is a solid terminated by a curve surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. G The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE about its diameter... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - Conic sections - 1845 - 542 pages
...GEOMETRY. SPHERICAL GEOMETRY. DEFINITIONS. 1. THE sphere is a solid terminated by a curve surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. G The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE about its diameter... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1846 - 362 pages
...diameter by 3.14159. (Leg. 11. 5. Sch.) Note. — The circumference of a circle is a curve line, al1 the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The diameter of a circle is a straight line which passes through the centre, and is terminated on both... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1847 - 432 pages
...Multiply the diameter by 3.14159. (Leg. V. 11. Sch.) Note. — The circumference of a circle is a curve line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The diameter of a. circle is a straight line which passes through the centre, and is terminated on both... | |
 | Benjamin Peirce - Geometry - 1847 - 204 pages
...sides. CHAPTER XVIII. THE SPHERE. 415. Definition. A sphere is a solid terminated by a curved surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. 416. Corollary. The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle, DAE... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1847 - 426 pages
...Multiply the diameter by 3.14159. (Leg. V. 11. Sch.) Note. — The circumference of a circle is a curve line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within^ called the ce-ndre. The diameter of a. circle is a straight line which passes through the centre, and is terminated... | |
 | Alpheus Crosby - Geometry - 1847 - 192 pages
...combination is yet to be proved. Thus, Legendre's definition of the circumference of a circle as " a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from an interior point, called the centre," * does not identify the circumference of a circle-; but is equally... | |
 | Stephen Chase - Geometry - 1847 - 28 pages
...combination is yet to be proved. Thus, Legendre's definition of the circumference of a circle as " a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from an interior point, called the centre," * does not * "La circonference du cercle est une ligne courbe,... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1848 - 432 pages
...Multiply the diameter by 3.14159. (Leg. V. 11. Sch.) Note.—The circumference of a circle is a curve line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The diameter of a circle is a straight line which passes through the centre, and is terminated on both... | |
 | Charles Davies - Trigonometry - 1849 - 372 pages
...MxQxRxV=NxPx SxT or MxRxQxV=NxSxPxf BOOK III. THE CIRCLE, AND THE MEASUREMENT OF ANGLES. Definitions. 1. The circumference of a circle is a curved line, all...from a point within, called the centre. The circle is Ihe space terminated by this curved line.* 2. Every straight line, CA, CE, CD, drawn from the centre... | |
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CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre; as the figure ADB E. 
